Philippine’s General Maternity Ward is Busy and Full

Day by day population in the Philippines is increasing, and this causes many social, economic, and pollution problems.The rice shortage that the Philippines is currently experiencing is the result of its exploding population.The country is quickly running out of land and all other needed resources to house, feed, educate, and otherwise care for its almost hundred million Filipinos.

The major effect of overpopulation in our country is unemployment. First of all, there aren’t enough sources of jobs in the Banana Republic of Donya, so only the most prepared at may kapit people get a job.This is a great social and economic problem because people who don’t work are busy making babies and they get frustrated if they can’t support their families.

The effect of overpopulation is the low quality of public services. Natural resources, like water or food, aren’t enough for so many people, so there is a lot of thirst and hunger in the country. Also, the level of education is quite low because there are a lot of children or young people who must study, and there are not enough schools or teachers na bulakboleros con bulakboleras. The same happens with health; hospitals aren’t capable of giving attention to all the people who need it, so there are a lot of diseases.

The most significant effect of overpopulation is the high level of pollution. Because a great number of rich people must go by car to their jobs at the same time the poor catch the bus or any public transportation, amazing traffic jams are caused. This, together with the noise caused by cars and people, causes a great amount of pollution. Also, every day people generate a lot of trash, and this pollutes both water and ground. Continued rapid population growth is draining health and economic resources and slowing down economic growth. It also threatens the sustainability of rural livelihoods and is inexorably destroying the remaining natural forest and marine habitats. The poor are paying the highest price, both individually and collectively.

In trying to understand the Philippine population problem, it becomes apparent that the problem is more pronounced the lower the social rung one goes. The poorest of the poor tend to have more children compared to the middle and upper classes of society and their logic behind the large family is this: the more children you have the greater the chance that one or more of them will become successful enough to pull you and the rest of the family out of poverty. In addition, parents in the Philippines also look to their kids as the ones who will take care of them in their old age. Thus, the more kids they have, the more caretakers they will have in their twilight years.

The Catholic Church against all forms of artificial birth control, and you realize that it is almost impossible for a weak and hobbled administration like the Arroyo administration to take any concrete steps to stem the country’s runaway population growth. For any foreigner or balikbayan, the sheer number of people in Metro Manila is enough to overwhelm the senses. Everywhere you look, you see hundreds of people in the streets, at all times of the day or night. Piles of garbage, polluted sewers, smog from cars, trucks, and jeepneys, and now rice and other agriculture products are no longer able to keep up with the increasing demands of an exploding population.

It is not going to be easy, and it is not going to be quick, but something has to be done to bring the Philippine’s runaway population growth under control. We owe it to the future generations of Filipinos who may be forced to live in poverty and squalor. We owe it to the millions of young graduates who cannot find jobs here at home and are forced to work overseas. We owe it to our children who expect us to fix the problem and not just pass on a bigger problem to them.

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Certainly I agree,Philippines a small country can only capable of sustaining a certain amount of people.Already we have stressed to a breaking point.There are outbreaks of starvation constantly,unfortunately, we do not pay as much attention.As the population continues to rise, the supply of food will continue to dwindle.We can only produce a fixed amount of food with the resources which we have. The rising number of people also necessitates further land for them to use as habitation.The more land used for us to live on,the less there is available for farming.It is a vicious circle which has no end if the population growth in our country is not curbed.

Overpopulation is a major cause of all environmental problems.
Do not breed, and try to convince people not to breed too.
Don’t worry for the economy, the effect will not be important enough to cause problem.
The idea is to have the smallest population during the next century.
Someone who is born now will live in the order of 75 years, have 2 children 25 years from now, 4 grand children 50 years from now, 8 in 75 years…
If you count the number of human years lived within 1 century, it is:
1*75+2*75+4*50+8*25= 625 years!
You can avoid 625 years of pollution, habitat destruction..

If 5% of the population do that, it means hundreds of millions fewer people 50 years from now.

Don’t breed! And try to convince as many people as you can not to breed!

People are born not only with mouths that need to be fed, but also with hands that can produce, and minds that can create and innovate. The poor, to whom the earth is entrusted no less than to others, must be enabled to find a way out of their poverty. This will require a courageous reform of structures, as well as new ways of relating among peoples.

Have plenty of children and remain poor, cut down on children and be prosperous. In other words: Let us eliminate poverty by eliminating the poor. Women of child-bearing age are considered dangerous to society. Children are no longer welcomed, but considered superfluous. People are one-sidedly seen merely as eaters and consumers, as if they were vermin. But first and foremost people are an asset and a resource, potential producers and creators of new wealth. They say, for instance, that the annual population growth rate is around 5 % and the annual economic growth rate around 4 %; therefore, the population growth rate must be brought down to 4 %. In other words: the people must be adjusted to the economy.We need adjust the economy to the people and bring up the economic growth to the population increase.

If the family believe in the teaching of Church,they are dead wrong! Church only preach moral values and they don’t feed the hungry. Church addresses population issues in the context of its teaching on human life, of just development, of care for the environment, and of respect for the freedom of married couples to decide voluntarily on the number and spacing of births.In keeping with these values, and out of respect for cultural norms, it continues to oppose coercive methods of population control and programs that bias decisions through incentives or disincentives. Respect for nature ought to encourage policies that promote natural family planning and true responsible parenthood rather than coercive population control programs or incentives for birth control that violate cultural and religious norms and Catholic teaching.